"Sampo" <MSampo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:MSampo-ED1557.21552611062006@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Throughout all its 11 years on TV, one thing remained constant for
> MST3K, it was never really a ratings hit. MST3K is THE most
> well-remembered show almost nobody actually watched. Select a random
> person on the street, ask him or her about MST3K. In all likelihood
> their eyes will light up and they'll and say, "Yeah, I LOVED that
show!"
> Now quiz this person. How often did you watch it? How many episodes
did
> you see? What was your favorite episode? You'll see the light quickly
> fade from their eyes.
Well, a large part of that is due to the utter obscurity of the movies
that they riffed.
> As one its biggest fans, I'm here to tell you: MST3K's devoted
audience
> was a mile wide and an inch deep. "The right people will get it," Joel
> said. Too bad there aren't enough of the right people.
Too bad they couldn't be using current bad movies as their fodder,
especially the current glut of Sci-Fi Channel Z-Movies. Hell, I'd even
open it up to painfully bad episodes of recent sci-fi tv shows.
--
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)
"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.
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